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Revisiting When Affirmative Action Was White, nearly two decades on.
Rare earth mining will disrupt local climate resilience. Who should pay the price?
German leaders have responded to war in Ukraine with huge increases in defense spending, breaking with the culture of pacifism that emerged after World War II and marking a new wave of militarization.
In Palestine and Kurdistan, promising experiments in self-determination draw on the region’s pluralist history.
Palestinian women and feminist organizations are reimagining what liberation can look like beyond national independence.
Robin D. G. Kelley on the midterm elections.
The problem isn't new; it's the bordered logic of global apartheid itself.
The tradition allows private and public life to meet, maintaining a baseline solidarity in civic life.
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Distinguished Professor of History at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York.
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